Also available for purchase from 20th November, the Black Sea Colonies Culture Pack brings three further factions to ROME II’s Grand Campaign, custom battles and multiplayer. Cimmeria, Colchis and Pergamom all claim Greek heritage, but their settlement away from their homelands has wrought subtle changes to their cultures. Total War: ROME II u2013 Black Sea Colonies Culture PackThe Black Sea Colonies Culture Pack introduces three new playable factions into the ROME II Grand Campaign: Cimmeria, Pergamon and Colchis. Originally citizens of the Greek States, these pioneering peoples have settled far from home, intermingling their customs wi.

Factions in Total War: Rome II

Ranging from the Spanish coast to the far-flung, exotic kingdoms of the east, the campaign map for Total War: Rome II is breathtaking in scope, and a study in detail and variety. This page is your source for background information about each of the playable factions: their starting position on the campaign map, their civic and military focus, and some of their key battlefield units.

The playable factions represent key powers within the Greco-Roman, Barbarian, and Eastern cultures, and each offers a notably different and deeper form of gameplay experience from those in previous Total War games. Each brings unique commercial, military and political strengths, its own agents and political system, and three tech trees representing civic, military and engineering disciplines. Each will have its own dilemmas to face and different styles of army to manage. Some factions are split into a number of playable families, which bring further unique benefits to their base faction traits.

Players will need to work with – and in certain circumstances against – their faction’s internal political system. You’ll direct the actions of famous characters from history, and if they’re not out in the field commanding your armies, they’ll be politicking in the senate house, or its cultural equivalent. Players would be wise to keep an eye on such individuals…

Some factions rely more on mercenaries for their military might; some prefer to train their own. Some rely on client-nations or vassals to boost their economic growth, while others are more trade-focussed. Whichever you choose, each faction brings a completely different gameplay experience to Total War: Rome II.

Grand Campaign

- Rome

- Arverni

- Carthage

- Egypt

- Iceni

- Macedon

- Parthia

- Suebi

Free Factions

- Pontus

Available for free in content update from release day.

- Seleucid

Second Free-LC Faction.

- Baktria

Third Free-LC Faction.

- Getae

Fourth Free-LC Faction - released alongside the Battle of Pydna.

- Armenia

Fifth Free-LC faction - released as part of the Total War: Rome II - Emperor Edition.

- Massilia

Sixth Free-LC Faction - released alongside the Black Sea Colonies Culture Pack.

Campaign Packs

Caesar in Gaul

- Boii

- Galatia

- Nervii

These factions are included in the Caesar in Gaul Campaign Pack, but are playable in the Grand Campaign Game.

Hannibal at the Gates

- Arevaci

- Lusitani

- Syracuse

These factions are included in the Hannibal at the Gates Campaign Pack, but are playable in the Grand Campaign Game.

Wrath of Sparta

- Sparta

- Athenai

- Boiotian League

- Korinthos

These factions are available only in the Wrath Of Sparta Campaign Pack. The Factions Sparta and Athens in the Grand Campaign (part of the Greek States Culture Pack) remain the same.

Imperator Augustus

Free Campaign Pack

- Octavian's Rome

- Lepidus' Rome

- Antony's Rome

List of playable factions in the Imperator Augustus Campaign Pack: Marc Antony, Lepidus, Octavian, Pompey, Iceni, Marcomanni, Dacia, Egypt, Parthia and Armenia (also playable in the TWR2 Grand Campaign).

Culture Packs

The Greek States

- Athens

- Epirus

- Sparta

The Nomadic Tribes

- Massagetae

- Roxolani

- Royal Scythia

Pirates and Raiders

- Ardiaei

- Odrysian Kingdom

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- Tylis

Black Sea Colonies

- Cimmeria

- Colchis

- Pergamon

Cimmeria (TWR2 faction)

Fertile, tolerant, steadfast

The Cimmerian Bosporus has been fought over for its resources and strategic importance for millennia. The adventurous Greeks of Miletus, in Asia Minor, formed several colonies around the Black Sea coast during the 6th and 7th centuries BCE in order to exploit its resources for trade with the wider Greek world.
By the beginning of the 5th century BCE their government had gravitated from classical Greek democracy to control by a single family. The current ruler, Satyrus, conquered nearby Greek cities, heralding the birth of the Cimmerian Kingdom, and a dynasty of rulers that endures to this day. Despite this strength, Cimmeria remains under threat from the surrounding nomadic tribes, and from the avaricious gaze of nearby Pontus, whose military strength may yet prove its undoing.
A truly multicultural society, Cimmeria welcomes foreign peoples into its borders with greater enthusiasm than other states, and its fertile farmlands offer the seed of great profit, in spite of a notoriously corrupt government. With a military composed chiefly of Scythian and Greek unit-types, Cimmeria can offer a swift and unwelcome surprise on the battlefield.

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Included in the Black Sea Colonies Culture Pack.

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